Please R&R I own no one except if I made them up. This is a Carby cause it's what I like.
"Hey can I help you girls?" Abby asks two girls in discussion by the entrance as Abby makes her way into the E.R.
"No" The blue eyed brunette answers quickly
"Yes." Her taller blonde haired blue eyes friend counters
"Which is it?" Abby asks shivering slightly
The brunette glances fiercely at her friend who ignores the look and replies "She" Her friend says jerking her hand towards her friend "Is hurt I don't know what she called it but she doesn't want to see a doctor."
"I don't need to." Her friend insists
"Why don't you come in and I'll look at it." Abby offers
"Go." The blonde insists
"Will you go to school if I do?" The brunette asks
"Yes. After I believe you're not going to just leave."
"Fine, lead the way" The brunette says to Abby
Abby shows the girls to an exam room and draws the curtain.
"Amanda you can leave now." The brunette says exasperated
"Not yet." Amanda replies she turns to Abby "She knows she should of gone to a doctor, she's pre-med."
"How old are you?" Abby asks
"We're eighteen." Amanda replies
"So you're first year then?" Abby asks making conversation
"Second, I graduated early from high school."
"Wow, you're parents must be really proud of you." Abby comments pulling on some gloves
Jamie shakes her head "They don't even know."
"How's that?" Abby asks stopping
"Jamie got emancipated when she was sixteen, the state granted it to her because she wasn't to far off from being seventeen. Plus her teachers and all these people they interviewed said she could handle it."
"How did your parents not know?" Abby asks curious
"I ran away, graduated and got emancipated. I had graduated after my junior year. Passed the graduation test with flying colors. Started college that summer, I got through first year and now I'm halfway through my second. We're on break for a while." Jamie explains
"You've got courage." Abby comments "I don't know if I could of done that."
"So now can you leave?" Jamie asks Amanda
"Yes, just don't leave before-"
"Amanda" Jamie says pointedly
"Fine I'm leaving." Amanda replies walking out
"OK, so what's the problem?" Abby asks Jamie
"My arm, I hit into the angle of a table I put butterfly stitches on it, but I probably need regular ones, I was going to go to the doctor, just my doctor. Amanda insisted now though."
"Yea you definitely need stitches" Abby says examining the cut. "It's pretty deep."
"Abby?" Mark asks walking in. "Sorry for interrupting."
"Don't worry I'm just giving her some stitches, sit down." She motions to the chair for Jamie to sit in.
Jamie sits and slightly cringes as she does.
"Are you all right?" Mark asks noticing
"Yea. Track" Jamie offers as explanation.
"All right." Mark accepts it hesitantly "Abby did the guy with the hemorrhaging leave?"
"I think so. Why?" Abby asks not looking up
"Never mind. Feel better." Mark says to Jamie
"All right, you're done here. I just need you to fill this chart out."
Jamie takes the chart and fills it out quickly "Where do I pay?"
"At the desk, but you're insurance will probably-"
"I do it by cash." Jamie replies grabbing her coat.
"All right." Abby says as Jamie pushes through the door and goes to the desk to pay.
"Hey there you are. I was looking for you." Carter says walking in
"Yea I got sidetracked a couple of girls needed help. The girl needed stitches"
Carter rubs her shoulders "How about dinner tonight."
"John-"
"I know that I've got to get up early for a morning shift and so you do, but our schedules hardly ever match."
"John-"
"What?"
"Besides your brother you didn't have any other siblings did you?"
"No why?" John asks wrapping his arms around Abby
"No younger sister?"
John pulls back. "Why?"
"Well it's just this girl who came in here, her name her last name is Carter, but Carter is a common last name right?" Abby reasons
"What was her name?"
"Jamie, but- John where are you going?" Abby goes after John
"Where did she go?"
"To the desk to pay, but-"
"Malik there was a girl, who was just here and she-"
"Paid for stitching right? Yea she left about five minutes ago, I called her a taxi." Malik replies
"Can I see the insurance forms she filled out for you?"
"Nah man she paid full in cash." Malik shrugs "Sorry"
"Damn it!" John hits the desk
"John that's what I was trying to tell you, she was paying in cash. I thought it was weird but she was gone before I had read the information she gave."
"I know, it's not your fault don't worry about it." John covers his mouth "Did she say where she was going?"
"No, her friend was going to school that's all I know." Abby replies pulling John into the lounge
"Amanda?"
"Yea that's it. Tall blonde. John is Jamie your sister?"
"Yea." John nods sitting down "She is."
"How long has she been gone?" Abby asks gently
"Almost 2 years minus a few months."
"Do you know what she did?" Abby asks
"Why do you?" John asks sitting on the couch, Abby joins him
"She said she ran away, graduated after her junior year and got emancipated. Started college that summer and now she's second year pre-med."
"She's pre-med?" Carter asks smiling for a second "She tore our family apart, left without saying bye."
"Why'd she leave?"
"I don't know, none of us kids got along with our parents much, but she was always more adamant about what she wanted and how she wanted to get there, they fought a lot."
"Families are tough that way." Abby sympathizes
"Carter, Abby we need you now!" Weever calls pushing the door open and then running past them.
Carter and Abby run off as the ambulance pulls up.
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Jamie gets her coffee and sips it slowly as a man sits down besides her at the counter.
"You didn't get very far." Mark says to her "Mark Green"
"Jamie Carter." Jamie introduces herself
"Any relation to John Carter?"
"No." Jamie shakes her head "Carter is a common last name."
"So track huh? I've heard better excuses" Mark says after ordering
"What are you talking about?"
"Come on sit at a booth with me" Mark motions, they take a seat. "So what's your story?"
"I don't have a story."
"18 years old second year pre-med I think you have a story. How do you manage paying for school, working and keeping a place to live. Your parents?"
"No, I'm on my own."
"So how do you pull that off?"
"I live with my ex-boyfriend." Jamie replies getting uncomfortable
"Ex?"
"When I moved in, he wasn't my ex."
"Do you work?"
"Yes, I have a full scholarship too as long as my grades don't slip"
"So you don't work much do you?"
"I spend most of my time studying, I work to pay off my half of the rent, I have to keep my apartment."
"Isn't life grand?" Mark jokes as the waiter sets down his food. "You're not ordering?"
"Not with the budget I'm on." Jamie laughs "I eat at my house, keep it cheap."
"I see, so do you like living on your own?"
"Beats my parents house"
"I know that feeling." Mark agrees "So your ex, what's he like?"
"An ex, we just live together nothing more."
"Why didn't you move out?"
"Can't afford anything else."
"So you're ex….why is he your ex?"
"You ask a lot of questions." Jamie points out
"Sorry." Mark takes a bite of food
"He's an ass basically, I don't like to hang out with him or anything. He's not home much anyway."
"So where do you find the time for track?"
Jamie looks down
"That's what I thought." Mark replies standing up "This is my pager number, page me if you ever need any help"
Jamie grabs the number and watches as Mark leaves. Then gets up and leaves as well.
****************
Jamie walks into her apartment silently, it reeked out alcohol. She quietly walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge.
"It's empty" Shane tells her from the table. "You didn't go shopping"
"That's not my job." Jamie shuts the door "How much did you drink tonight?"
"What do you care?" Shane replies angrily "The rent's due soon."
"I know I'm going to deposit the check tomorrow." Jamie grabs a box of macaroni and cheese out of the closet and starts to boil some water.
"I'll do it, give me your share."
"No, last time I did, you got drunk and lost it all playing cards."
"I wont do that though." Shane insists his words slightly slurred "Give me the money!"
"No. You want any?" Jamie asks calmly indicating the boiling water.
"I don't want any shit from you except the rent money!" Shane says his voice raising as he stands up
"Sorry, but I can't help you there."
"You've gotten courageous haven't you? Went on a power trip? Don't let your head get so big. Ms. Pre-Med." Shane mocks her.
Jamie rolls up her sleeves and finishes making the food.
"What happened to your arm?"
"You did, or were you too drunk last night you don't even remember?" Jamie shoots back
"Did you tell anyone?" Shane grabs her
"Get the hell off, no I didn't. I am not going to lose my scholarship or anything because of your lack of intelligence!" Jamie shouts
"Let me have some, I'm hungry now."
Disgusted Jamie gets up and leaves "It's crap anyway." She mutters walking out then she walks back in. "You've got a lot of nerve too, do you know how much trouble you'd be in if I ever told anyone the crap you did here?"
"Don't even start that with me!" Shane yells
"If my family knew how much I sacrificed to get out of that house. I went from one hell hole to another."
Shane stood up, a muscular six foot three man towering over her smaller five foot five thin frame. "You can leave anytime you want" He sneers
"You know I can't. No one else is as cheap." Jamie retorts
"Bitch" Shane growls he throws Jamie into the wall "You ungrateful bitch I don't know how I ever thought I loved you."
"The feelings mutual" Jamie replies rubbing her shoulder and grabbing a towel and pulling the ice-tray out of the freezer.
Shane grabs the towel and throws it aside and hits the ice-tray to the ground. Jamie stalks out of the kitchen
"Don't follow me Shane"
"It's my house."
"It's half mine, I pay half the rent" Jamie reminds him
"Details! I don't give a crap about that. I'm talking to you Jamie come here."
"Screw you." Jamie goes into her room and locks the door.
"Hey can I help you girls?" Abby asks two girls in discussion by the entrance as Abby makes her way into the E.R.
"No" The blue eyed brunette answers quickly
"Yes." Her taller blonde haired blue eyes friend counters
"Which is it?" Abby asks shivering slightly
The brunette glances fiercely at her friend who ignores the look and replies "She" Her friend says jerking her hand towards her friend "Is hurt I don't know what she called it but she doesn't want to see a doctor."
"I don't need to." Her friend insists
"Why don't you come in and I'll look at it." Abby offers
"Go." The blonde insists
"Will you go to school if I do?" The brunette asks
"Yes. After I believe you're not going to just leave."
"Fine, lead the way" The brunette says to Abby
Abby shows the girls to an exam room and draws the curtain.
"Amanda you can leave now." The brunette says exasperated
"Not yet." Amanda replies she turns to Abby "She knows she should of gone to a doctor, she's pre-med."
"How old are you?" Abby asks
"We're eighteen." Amanda replies
"So you're first year then?" Abby asks making conversation
"Second, I graduated early from high school."
"Wow, you're parents must be really proud of you." Abby comments pulling on some gloves
Jamie shakes her head "They don't even know."
"How's that?" Abby asks stopping
"Jamie got emancipated when she was sixteen, the state granted it to her because she wasn't to far off from being seventeen. Plus her teachers and all these people they interviewed said she could handle it."
"How did your parents not know?" Abby asks curious
"I ran away, graduated and got emancipated. I had graduated after my junior year. Passed the graduation test with flying colors. Started college that summer, I got through first year and now I'm halfway through my second. We're on break for a while." Jamie explains
"You've got courage." Abby comments "I don't know if I could of done that."
"So now can you leave?" Jamie asks Amanda
"Yes, just don't leave before-"
"Amanda" Jamie says pointedly
"Fine I'm leaving." Amanda replies walking out
"OK, so what's the problem?" Abby asks Jamie
"My arm, I hit into the angle of a table I put butterfly stitches on it, but I probably need regular ones, I was going to go to the doctor, just my doctor. Amanda insisted now though."
"Yea you definitely need stitches" Abby says examining the cut. "It's pretty deep."
"Abby?" Mark asks walking in. "Sorry for interrupting."
"Don't worry I'm just giving her some stitches, sit down." She motions to the chair for Jamie to sit in.
Jamie sits and slightly cringes as she does.
"Are you all right?" Mark asks noticing
"Yea. Track" Jamie offers as explanation.
"All right." Mark accepts it hesitantly "Abby did the guy with the hemorrhaging leave?"
"I think so. Why?" Abby asks not looking up
"Never mind. Feel better." Mark says to Jamie
"All right, you're done here. I just need you to fill this chart out."
Jamie takes the chart and fills it out quickly "Where do I pay?"
"At the desk, but you're insurance will probably-"
"I do it by cash." Jamie replies grabbing her coat.
"All right." Abby says as Jamie pushes through the door and goes to the desk to pay.
"Hey there you are. I was looking for you." Carter says walking in
"Yea I got sidetracked a couple of girls needed help. The girl needed stitches"
Carter rubs her shoulders "How about dinner tonight."
"John-"
"I know that I've got to get up early for a morning shift and so you do, but our schedules hardly ever match."
"John-"
"What?"
"Besides your brother you didn't have any other siblings did you?"
"No why?" John asks wrapping his arms around Abby
"No younger sister?"
John pulls back. "Why?"
"Well it's just this girl who came in here, her name her last name is Carter, but Carter is a common last name right?" Abby reasons
"What was her name?"
"Jamie, but- John where are you going?" Abby goes after John
"Where did she go?"
"To the desk to pay, but-"
"Malik there was a girl, who was just here and she-"
"Paid for stitching right? Yea she left about five minutes ago, I called her a taxi." Malik replies
"Can I see the insurance forms she filled out for you?"
"Nah man she paid full in cash." Malik shrugs "Sorry"
"Damn it!" John hits the desk
"John that's what I was trying to tell you, she was paying in cash. I thought it was weird but she was gone before I had read the information she gave."
"I know, it's not your fault don't worry about it." John covers his mouth "Did she say where she was going?"
"No, her friend was going to school that's all I know." Abby replies pulling John into the lounge
"Amanda?"
"Yea that's it. Tall blonde. John is Jamie your sister?"
"Yea." John nods sitting down "She is."
"How long has she been gone?" Abby asks gently
"Almost 2 years minus a few months."
"Do you know what she did?" Abby asks
"Why do you?" John asks sitting on the couch, Abby joins him
"She said she ran away, graduated after her junior year and got emancipated. Started college that summer and now she's second year pre-med."
"She's pre-med?" Carter asks smiling for a second "She tore our family apart, left without saying bye."
"Why'd she leave?"
"I don't know, none of us kids got along with our parents much, but she was always more adamant about what she wanted and how she wanted to get there, they fought a lot."
"Families are tough that way." Abby sympathizes
"Carter, Abby we need you now!" Weever calls pushing the door open and then running past them.
Carter and Abby run off as the ambulance pulls up.
********************
Jamie gets her coffee and sips it slowly as a man sits down besides her at the counter.
"You didn't get very far." Mark says to her "Mark Green"
"Jamie Carter." Jamie introduces herself
"Any relation to John Carter?"
"No." Jamie shakes her head "Carter is a common last name."
"So track huh? I've heard better excuses" Mark says after ordering
"What are you talking about?"
"Come on sit at a booth with me" Mark motions, they take a seat. "So what's your story?"
"I don't have a story."
"18 years old second year pre-med I think you have a story. How do you manage paying for school, working and keeping a place to live. Your parents?"
"No, I'm on my own."
"So how do you pull that off?"
"I live with my ex-boyfriend." Jamie replies getting uncomfortable
"Ex?"
"When I moved in, he wasn't my ex."
"Do you work?"
"Yes, I have a full scholarship too as long as my grades don't slip"
"So you don't work much do you?"
"I spend most of my time studying, I work to pay off my half of the rent, I have to keep my apartment."
"Isn't life grand?" Mark jokes as the waiter sets down his food. "You're not ordering?"
"Not with the budget I'm on." Jamie laughs "I eat at my house, keep it cheap."
"I see, so do you like living on your own?"
"Beats my parents house"
"I know that feeling." Mark agrees "So your ex, what's he like?"
"An ex, we just live together nothing more."
"Why didn't you move out?"
"Can't afford anything else."
"So you're ex….why is he your ex?"
"You ask a lot of questions." Jamie points out
"Sorry." Mark takes a bite of food
"He's an ass basically, I don't like to hang out with him or anything. He's not home much anyway."
"So where do you find the time for track?"
Jamie looks down
"That's what I thought." Mark replies standing up "This is my pager number, page me if you ever need any help"
Jamie grabs the number and watches as Mark leaves. Then gets up and leaves as well.
****************
Jamie walks into her apartment silently, it reeked out alcohol. She quietly walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge.
"It's empty" Shane tells her from the table. "You didn't go shopping"
"That's not my job." Jamie shuts the door "How much did you drink tonight?"
"What do you care?" Shane replies angrily "The rent's due soon."
"I know I'm going to deposit the check tomorrow." Jamie grabs a box of macaroni and cheese out of the closet and starts to boil some water.
"I'll do it, give me your share."
"No, last time I did, you got drunk and lost it all playing cards."
"I wont do that though." Shane insists his words slightly slurred "Give me the money!"
"No. You want any?" Jamie asks calmly indicating the boiling water.
"I don't want any shit from you except the rent money!" Shane says his voice raising as he stands up
"Sorry, but I can't help you there."
"You've gotten courageous haven't you? Went on a power trip? Don't let your head get so big. Ms. Pre-Med." Shane mocks her.
Jamie rolls up her sleeves and finishes making the food.
"What happened to your arm?"
"You did, or were you too drunk last night you don't even remember?" Jamie shoots back
"Did you tell anyone?" Shane grabs her
"Get the hell off, no I didn't. I am not going to lose my scholarship or anything because of your lack of intelligence!" Jamie shouts
"Let me have some, I'm hungry now."
Disgusted Jamie gets up and leaves "It's crap anyway." She mutters walking out then she walks back in. "You've got a lot of nerve too, do you know how much trouble you'd be in if I ever told anyone the crap you did here?"
"Don't even start that with me!" Shane yells
"If my family knew how much I sacrificed to get out of that house. I went from one hell hole to another."
Shane stood up, a muscular six foot three man towering over her smaller five foot five thin frame. "You can leave anytime you want" He sneers
"You know I can't. No one else is as cheap." Jamie retorts
"Bitch" Shane growls he throws Jamie into the wall "You ungrateful bitch I don't know how I ever thought I loved you."
"The feelings mutual" Jamie replies rubbing her shoulder and grabbing a towel and pulling the ice-tray out of the freezer.
Shane grabs the towel and throws it aside and hits the ice-tray to the ground. Jamie stalks out of the kitchen
"Don't follow me Shane"
"It's my house."
"It's half mine, I pay half the rent" Jamie reminds him
"Details! I don't give a crap about that. I'm talking to you Jamie come here."
"Screw you." Jamie goes into her room and locks the door.